Nifty stuff. My one concern is with the license. What is the license behind this data?
Corey On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > I just finished converting the Surrey road data to a .osm file. This may be > of interest to anyone mapping in the Surrey area. > > I've posted it to http://maps.paulnorman.ca/surrey/SurreyRoads2010.zip along > with the ogr2osm translation file I wrote. > > I'm not planning to import it wholesale, just selectively if I have to > update a road, and I plan to move some tags over on major roads (maxspeed, > lanes, hgv=*, hazmat=*) > > Some notes on the strengths and weakness of the data > > Weaknesses: > - Ways are not dualized. This road data was intended for their printed maps > which do not have dualized roads. Incidentally, I purchased one of those > maps. > > - Some roads are off in position. Most are extremely good with <40cm error, > but some have jogs that are out of place by a few meters. > > - Odd classifications. Some roads are classified strangely. This only > impacts secondary and primary roads. > > Strengths: > > - It is very recent, with roads not constructed until late 2010 present in > the data > > - The postions seem slightly better than GeoBase > > - It has truck access and hazardous material restrictions > > - It has speed and lane information > > > The tagging of a typical road is > > highway=residential > lanes=2 > maxspeed=50 > name=58 Avenue > source=City of Surrey 2010 GIS Data > surface=Asphalt > surrey:geodb_oid:496 > > while a highway looks like > > hazmat=designated > hgv=designated > highway=primary > etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
